Look for it in savannas, pine flatwoods, pocosin margins, swamps, primarily in wetlands, but extending upslope even into sandhills, with a clay lens or spodic horizon below to maintain additional moisture, per Weakley's Flora

"If you want to support lots of wildlife, you must supply as many different species of native plants as you can. A good place to pack in that plant diversity is in hedgerows and border plantings." — Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home